![]() ![]() ET, as Hadassah Magazine Executive Editor Lisa Hostein interviews award-winning author Francine Prose about her newest book and its themes of antisemitism and acculturation in 1950s America and the impact of the Rosenberg trial on American Jewry. Join us on Thursday, December 9, at 7 p.m. If someone asked me if I was Jewish, I would have said yes, but why would anyone ask Simon Putnam, with his Viking-blond hair and blue eyes?” - The VixenĪ penetrative and humorous look at the McCarthy Era and the Jewish struggle for acceptance in post-World War II America, The Vixen by Francine Prose follows a young Jewish man, a recent Harvard graduate, as he navigates loyalty to his middle-class family and Jewish values, his conscience and his own ambitions in the glittering New York City publishing world. I tried not to think about the sin I was half committing as I half pretended to come from a family that was nothing like my family, from a place far from Coney Island. It was not only pointless but wrong-a sin against the six million dead-to deny one’s heritage…. They will always find us, whoever the next they would be. ![]() ![]() “The Holocaust had taught us: No matter what you believed or didn’t, the Nazis knew who was Jewish. ![]()
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